Unlike in Connecticut, individual school districts in New York must negotiate the system with their teachers unions.

WSJ: Conn. Joining Teacher Trend

Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts argued that by concentrating on overall school performance this banding system fails to acknowledge the individual performances of pupils and departments within those schools.

BBC: Plaid Cymru debate

The commission calls on the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to develop a system for admissions which allows parents "some independent recourse in terms of their relationship with an individual school, or each academy trust, acting as its own admissions authority".

BBC: Academies could 'fuel social segregation'